Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2007-03-30

Re: [PATCH][IPv6]: Fix incorrect length check in rawv6_sendmsg()

From: Sridhar Samudrala <hidden>
Date: 2007-03-30 17:47:08

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 09:13 +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
In article [ref] (at Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:26:44 -0700 (PDT)), David Miller [off-list ref] says:
quoted
From: Sridhar Samudrala <redacted>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:17:28 -0700
quoted
The check for length in rawv6_sendmsg() is incorrect.
As len is an unsigned int, (len < 0) will never be TRUE.
I think checking for IPV6_MAXPLEN(65535) is better.

Is it possible to send ipv6 jumbo packets using raw
sockets? If so, we can remove this check.
I don't see why such a limitation against jumbo would exist,
does anyone else?

Thanks for catching this Sridhar.  A good compiler should simply
fail to compile "if (x < 0)" when 'x' is an unsigned type, don't
you think :-)
Dave, we use "int" for returning value,
so we should fix this anyway, IMHO;
we should not allow len > INT_MAX.

Don't you think so?

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <redacted>
Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
index 306d5d8..203e069 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
@@ -687,9 +687,9 @@ static int rawv6_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk,
 	int err;

 	/* Rough check on arithmetic overflow,
-	   better check is made in ip6_build_xmit
+	   better check is made in ip6_append_data().
 	 */
-	if (len < 0)
+	if (len > INT_MAX)
 		return -EMSGSIZE;

 	/* Mirror BSD error message compatibility */
diff --git a/net/ipv6/udp.c b/net/ipv6/udp.c
index 0ad4719..f590db5 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/udp.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/udp.c
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ do_udp_sendmsg:
 		return udp_sendmsg(iocb, sk, msg, len);

 	/* Rough check on arithmetic overflow,
-	   better check is made in ip6_build_xmit
+	   better check is made in ip6_append_data().
 	   */
 	if (len > INT_MAX - sizeof(struct udphdr))
 		return -EMSGSIZE;

--yoshfuji
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